Part I: Enterprise Software Basics.

Chapter 1: SAP NetWeaver: The New Foundation of IT.

Chapter 2: Primordial Acronym Soup: The Origins of Enterprise.

Chapter 3: Meet SAP NetWeaver.

Chapter 4: The Birth of a Solution.

Chapter 5: A Blueprint for the Future.

Chapter 6: The Evolution of mySAP Business Suite.

Chapter 7: Composite Applications and SAP xApps: Flexible and Reusable Innovation.

Part II: The Cast of Components.

Chapter 8: SAP Enterprise Portal: Something for Everyone.

Chapter 9: SAP Mobile Infrastructure: Information Hits the Road.

Chapter 10: SAP Gives Business Intelligence.

Chapter 11: Mastering SAP Master Data Management.

Chapter 12: Exchanging Data.

Chapter 13: SAP Web Application Server: The Cornerstone of SAP NetWeaver.

Part III: A Nifty Development Toolkit.

Chapter 14: SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio.

Chapter 15: Visual Composer: Going Codeless.

Chapter 16: Composite Solutions.

Chapter 17: Tying It All Together: SAP Solution Manager.

Part IV: SAP NetWeaver in Action.

Chapter 18: The World of Internal Portals.

Chapter 19: Deploying Web Services.

Chapter 20: SAP R/3 and Then Some.

Chapter 21: Making Sense of Data: Analytics and Reporting.

Chapter 22: Doing the Application-to-Application Thing.

Chapter 23: Custom Made: Composite Applications.

Part V: Rolling Out SAP NetWeaver.

Chapter 24: Plans and People.

Chapter 25: Information Station.

Chapter 26: Nifty Implementation Processes and Swell Software.

Part VI: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 27: Ten (or so) Ways to Get Started with SAP NetWeaver.

Appendix: About the CD.

Index.